Mastodawn

This is an excellent a-political explainer about why the actual act of Alberta, or any province, "separating" from Canada is a very difficult, maybe impossible, prospect.

It's worth the time (14 minutes) Including if you're not Canadian and want a relatively quick summary of some of the very Canadian history and processes.
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https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7136155

Why Alberta’s separation from Canada is almost impossible | About That

Alberta's separatist sentiment has resurged in recent months amid the Trump administration's comments about the province's future, coupled with economic and political tensions with the Canadian government. Andrew Chang explains what it would actually take to grant sovereignty to a Canadian province, and why it's so difficult to achieve. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images

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Jean-François Mezei 4d ago

@chris Negotiating national debt split , and pension plan can be done if there is goodwill. For instance, look at the value of Canadian govt assets physically in Alberta vs those in rest of country as percentage of debt Alberta would need to take on. This was never resolved for Québec.

Monaco doesn't have its own railway or postal system, they pay France to run them in Monaco. It is likely Alberta might do the same for many services initially and progressively bring them in house.

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David Mitchell

@chris @jfmezei

“Goodwill” haha!

Alberta’s UCP has already floated the idea of pulling out of the CPP and they first decided they would be entitled to 3 times its value, and then downgraded that to ‘only’ 53% While even the most generous outside calculations run more like 25%

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/chief-actuary-disagrees-with-alberta-government-belief-of-entitlement-to-more-than-half-of-cpp-1.7417130

Chief actuary disagrees with Alberta government belief of entitlement to more than half of CPP | CBC News

Canada’s chief actuary says Alberta would be entitled to interest from the Canada Pension Plan proportional to the money Albertans invested, should the province withdraw from CPP.

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